METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES AND PRACTICES IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

摘要: This article considers some methodological issues that arise when empirical inquiry is conducted within the framework of qualitative assumptions about nature reality and how we as humans can know it. These posit an complex, intertwined, best understood a contextual whole, inseparable from individuals-including researchers-who reality. Four primary are considered in this article: researcher interpreter; emergent research; understanding experience others; trustworthiness research. Further, discusses practices have arisen context issues. The described drawn diverse research traditions, including participant observation, naturalistic inquiry, grounded theory, hermeneutic approaches to interpretation texts (and actions texts), evaluation, body literature calls itself generically "qualitative research." goals threefold: (1) present internal rationale what it; (2) encourage researchers examine relevance assumptions, issues, their own problems; (3) point readers toward more detailed discussions use address these described. Although writers articulate differently, common underlying ideas be identified. Some recurring ideas-or themes-have been by Brett Sutton his issue [1] summarized highly condensed form below provide for discussion